It's all about not letting the side down

[tvordlj]

Mom came over, as i said earlier. And she needed a new wiper blade for the car. I said i'd measure it and we'd go into Canadian Tire to the autoparts department and get one. I wasn't quite sure how to change it but she'd get a neighbour or someone to do it. I pulled this little guy out of the desk drawer. Innocent looking by all accounts, right?


Ah. But you pull his tail and out comes a tape measure. Graham says "so it's a tape worm out of it's ass? " Erm. yes. More or less lol an Inchtapeworm i guess ;) You squeeze it's belly to retract the tape.



Anyway we got giggling. She said i ought to take the sheep into the parts desk and show the guy... "I need a wiper blade *pulls tail* this long!" Picturing the look on the guy's face had us in stitches.
Can't you see it?
Man standing there confronted with fuzzy sheep with 22 inches of tape coming out of it's ass.
Rolling his eyes.
"Women!"
I couldn't do that. I couldn't let the side down. I couldn't cement the bubble headed broad stereotype.
You'd think the answer would be to take the old blade off the car and take it inside for comparison but i couldn't work out how it came off.
Let the side down anyway, I guess.

So we found the blades.

But there were so many kinds and they didn't seem to be specific to the model car.
Apparently they are universally fitted even though the fittings all looked different.
We did ask at the counter, between two types that we chose.
No i did *not* bring the sheep in.
I assured the young fella working there that we'd got the right size and we bought the recommended one.
Mom got Staci's boyfriend to come over later on to snap it on. It took all of 2 minutes. *sigh*
I did manage to change the business end of my mop for a new one though.
Not completely useless :)

Comments

[acey.livejournal.com]

Oh too bad you didn't take the sheep into the store. You would have probably made somebody's day. :D

[tvor.livejournal.com]

But not mine. lol

[tvor.livejournal.com]

Besides, the guy at the counter was a puppy. It would have been funnier if it had been a middle aged man. A grizzled old mechanic. A child (i.e. 20 year old) would have just given us an impatient sigh and not seen the humour in it :)

[gramie-dee.livejournal.com]

I still can't figure out how any one would even have the idea to invent a sheep tape measure.